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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Lost banana capital

There was drama in Limbe the other day when City officials in a cat and mouse chase with food vendors with goods along the dirty streets confiscated this bunch of bananas from a woman hiding behind a tree squashing them on the ground with their shoes.

The woman broke into tears saying she had lost capital and expected to buy "ndiwo" vegetables and dried fish for her evening meal with her son. Friends trying to calm her down also ended up crying. It is illegal to sell food in the streets but in produce markets, shops etc.